Fourchette-less duplex-finger system glove



1932- c. H. JOHANSON v FOURCHETTE-LESS DUPLEX FINGER SYSTEM GLOVE ,2 Sheets-Sheet Filed Aug. 24, 1931 "INVENTbR, C'fifJZZaW n,

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In the manufacture of gloves according to- Patented flow. l, 1932 UNITED STATES CARL H. J'OHANSON, 01' LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

IOUBOHETTE-LESS DUPLEX-FINGER SYSTEE GLOVE Application filed August 24, 1981. Serial No. 558,805.

This invention relates-to gloves.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a dress glove which is entirely without fourchettes of any kind and more especially it is an objectto provide animproved method for the production of' glove blanks in which the roots or crotches of the fingers are so peculiarly cut and outlined that when the fingers of the front and back, that is the palm and the back parts ofthe glove, are stitched edge to edge without the introduction of any intermediate fourchette, the hand can be readily inserted into the wrist of the glove and the fingers passed readily into the'finger sacks. By practical demonstration of the present method gloves have been produced by the use of palm and'back patterns which when sewed obtain a highly satisfactory fit of the finger sacks upon the several fingers and upon the thumb.

By the present method a glove of exceptionally low cost of manufacture and sale price is produced and, further, a glove is obtained which can be worn on either hand with the present method the fingers of the palm and back blank portions, whether these are joined in one piece or produced in two separate blanks, are substantially duplicate and only a slight difference is made in the thumb blank portions so as to bring the seam con-' necting them into a desired position-along the ball of the thumb. a

A further feature in the production of the glove is the peculiar relation of the base line of the wrist to the base line of the thumb and the peculiar curvature of the side line of the glove between the base of the little finger, and therelative end of the base line of the wrist.

, The invention consists in certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objects and advantages, and whose construction, combination and details of means, and the manner of operation will be made manifest in the description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the scope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinafter. I

'in Fig. 1 the palm piece 2 is shown as stitched on a back piece 3, the former having a thumb part 4 andthe latter having a thumb part 5 which is shown as slightly out-curved at 6 to form a desired fullness of the thumb and bring the seam down well inward toward the palm rather than have it along the outside line of the thumb as would be the case in absence of the differential fullness 6.

For the purpose of description a base line ab is extended from the thumb side of the first finger. 8 through the thumb to about its base line 0. It will be seen that'the first fin er 8 is materially curved on thumb side and its end 19 bends somewhat away from the base line ab toward the contiguous second finger 9 which lies along the third finger 10 on a substantially straight line 11 and the little or fourth finger 12 lies at its outer position parallel to finger 10 along line 13 which is materially curved at 14 inwardly under the finger 10. The outside edge'of the little finger 12 is re-entrant on line 15to a point about opposite the base of the thumb 4 whence it curves outwardly on a flaring line 16 which extends to the wrist base line 17 The base line 17 extends transversely and has an inclined line 18 springing toward the thumb base 0. It will be noticed that'the line 18 diverges from the base line 0-?) to the wrist line 17 and presents an oblique wrist zone with respect to the base line ab.

Again referring to the fingers 8-, 9, 10 and 12 it will be noted that the line of separa- 9 each having substantially duplicate finger tion is substantially straight to the root or crotch of the finger blank and that the root This unique and peculiar cutting of the roots of the fingers is found to provide am le entry clearness for the insertion of the fi ngers of the hand, into a corresponding size glove.

When the palm blank 2 and the back blank 3.- are sewed together, inside out, closely around the margins, except across the wrist llIle 17, and when the sewed glove is turned inside out so as to bring the seamed margins internally, the glove very accurately fits a hand of corresponding size without any difficulty in the insertion of the hand or entry of the fingers into the finger sacks.

While Fig. 1 shows a two piece glove ineluding thumb parts 4 and 5, which may or may not be cut of one piece with the palm;

and back blanks, there is shown in Fig. 2

a one-piece glove blank comprising a palm area 2 and a back area 3 each of these having complementary portions 12-12, 1010, 99, and 88.

A thumb hole 25 is provided in the blank for the attachment of a thumb in an old and well-known manner. However, the fingers of this one-piece blank are cut and sewed on the same system as hercinabove set forth in the description as to the glove as shown in the Fi 1.

The ob ect of the deeply incurved little finger side line 15-16 is to obtain a very close -fit of the glove along'the little finger side of the hand when inserted.

Gloves can be made b this method and on patterns of the type ere shown by the utllization of any desired material such as leather,knit goods 'or warp and weft fabl'lCS. An important advantage is that no fourchettes are required and the sewin of the parts of the gloves is greatly simphfied since it is only necessary to closely sew around the margins of thesides of the "wrist, the thumb, and the fingers as shown at S.

The pur ose of the incurves at the base of the litt e finger and of the forefinger is to eliminate bagginess common to reviously p'lil'ofiosed types of gloves made wit out four-. 0 e es.

' By dress glove I mean to include all types y tion being separated by a straight slit to their of loves of hand fitting case, as distinguis ed from stufied and padded gloves.

What is claimed is: 1. A glove including palm and back parts palm and back finger covers and in which the area of the fingers of each system are co-extensive, and in which the root lines between the first and second fingers and between the third and fourth fingers each curve toward the center of the glove so that when stitched on their lines the fingers are in proper position for application to the hand and free from undesired back fulness.

4. A fourchette-less glove including duplicate palm and back blanks which have forefinger and little finger covers each of which have their inside root edges materially incurved toward the center of the glove so as to eliminate bagginess across the base line of the finger system andto bring the finger holes into proper position when the blanks are stitched; the finger parts of the palm and of the back being duplicate.

3. A glove having systems of duplicate 5. A fourchette-less glove including substantially duplicate palm and back covers, each of which are provided with a system of finger parts, those of the alm being the duplicate of those of the bac and the first, the

6. A glove including duplicate front and back portions,-each with finger blanks, the second and third'fin'ger blanks of each portion being separated by a straight slit to their relative root, the remote sides of said fingers being separated from their adjacent first and fourth fingers by slits which bend material- -ly inward so that the second and third fingers are appreciably widened to provide fulness for a finger without making dart incisions in the said portion and without use of fourchettes.

7. A glove including du licate front and back portions, each with ger blanks, the second and thirdfinger blanks of each porrelative root, the remote sides of said fingers being separated from their adjacent first and fourth fingers by slits which bend materially inward so that the second and third CARL H. JOHANSON. 

